Act 1 Loot Balance and Bosses

Act 1 Bosses aren't particularly bad in terms of health pools until the Act 1 Final Boss. It feels like the fight is about 20-30 seconds too long. It may just be the other issue I have listed below that causes it though.

The Loot issue I have is in Act 1 you get a reasonable amount of Uncut Skill Gems but very few Uncut Support Gems (Not enough to correct errors). I think a player is better served with more Support Gems than Skill Gems in the early game. Respec costs also feel slightly too high early compared to the gold you receive from monsters.

The amount of rare/magic items isn't terrible at that point but to promote farming bosses if you feel too weak to progress I'd suggest increasing the drop rarity of bosses slightly, A rare or orb or skill/support gem per run seems reasonable considering most of the time you have to clear to the boss.

My main issue with the loot is that it looks like it's rigged on purpose to not give you relevant items for your class.
You can get some decent drops but completely useless for your current character.

I've made a little video to show just that.

https://youtu.be/jy6XS2K6WiY?si=JCoZ5rqZYQbnvTPq

And it's only the first bigger fight in the game but that trend follows all the boss and mini boss fights throughout the game.

This is 100% a problem

Wondering if The Dev Team intentionally lied to us about loot being better in PoE2 or if it's just ignorance

Loot is, on average, better, and its not even close. There's just less of it.

ACT I is terrible. Quit this game on 3 classes so far. Friends won't even log back on.. : /

I'm trying to understand some of the Support Gems that appear to have debuffs on them like lessening damage to go with a minor perk they offer. The game is difficult enough without having to deal with taking DPS hits in exchange for fringe effects that simply don't help all that much. There doesn't appear to be any level 2 Support Gems in Act 1, so all I see thus far at my meager character level are options that don't exactly bolster my power to progress.

Level 2 support gems can be found towards the middle of act 3

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SilentTheGray#2578 wrote:

This is 100% a problem

Wondering if The Dev Team intentionally lied to us about loot being better in PoE2 or if it's just ignorance

Incompetence is usually the more honest answer. I mean, they've had 11 years of experience of working on this genre and at no time did they ever figure out that their loot system is terrible.

The amount of stuff they left wasted in PoE1 was ridiculous.

Act 1 end boss fight is 10x too long and too hard as you get swamped all the time. I've quit for the day as I'm fed up with trying to beat it.

GGG NOT ENJOYABLE!

I agree with loot drops being specifically not for your class. Played warrior and found very little armor/maces. Mostly caster gear, especially any rares/jewels/etc. Started a Sorc and I stopped finding energy shield gear, only hybrid or armor.

This phenomenon also effects shops. Much more of the other class gear is available.